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Piero Sraffa

1898 - 1983

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Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian political economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Piero Sraffa is the 178th most popular economist (down from 163rd in 2019), the 2,081st most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,939th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Piero Sraffa ranks 178 out of 414. Before him are Michał Kalecki, Harriet Martineau, Henry Sidgwick, Henry George, Jim Rogers, and Oliver Hart. After him are Eli Heckscher, János Kornai, Wilhelm Röpke, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, Myron Scholes, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Piero Sraffa ranks 95. Before him are Leon Štukelj, Hans Globke, Lotte Lenya, Kang Sheng, Desanka Maksimović, and Oscar Homolka. After him are Karl Mauss, Elazar Shach, Ferenc Plattkó, Ernst Wollweber, Joseph Kessel, and Jean Fautrier. Among people deceased in 1983, Piero Sraffa ranks 71. Before him are Miguel Alemán Valdés, Sharof Rashidov, Manuel Ferreira, Arturo Umberto Illia, László Budai, and Rolf Stommelen. After him are Dennis Wilson, Ferenc Plattkó, Ivan Vinogradov, Salo Flohr, Josep Lluís Sert, and Ralph Richardson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Piero Sraffa ranks 2,081 out of 5,161. Before him are Clarice de' Medici (1493), Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (1383), Nanni di Banco (1380), Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478), Carlo Biotti (1901), and Aloysius Bertrand (1807). After him are Salvadore Cammarano (1801), Marcus Aemilius Scaurus (-163), Marco Antonio Bragadin (1523), Infante Alfonso of Spain (1941), Spinello Aretino (1350), and Lino Lacedelli (1925).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Italy

Among economists born in Italy, Piero Sraffa ranks 4. Before him are Mario Draghi (1947), Franco Modigliani (1918), and Carlo M. Cipolla (1922). After him are Giovanni Arrighi (1937), Ferdinando Galiani (1728), Gian Domenico Romagnosi (1761), Pietro Verri (1728), Mariana Mazzucato (1968), Pier Carlo Padoan (1950), Daniele Archibugi (1958), and Alberto Alesina (1957).

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